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Transport committee With respect to the defect and recall program that this measure is addressing, we already post a fair amount of information and we do try to keep everything public right now.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee The intent, as we noted, is that it's per vehicle per day. Depending on the type of infraction, it would be one or the other. If they failed to issue a notice, it would be on a per vehicle, per day basis, so yes, it could get quite high, depending on what we put in the regulation
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee I will turn to Alain.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee It could be up to a maximum. When we develop the regulations, we have a maximum in terms of what we would use in the regulation. However, in the regulation we may decide that for a violation it might be $10,000 or $200,000. Then we could say “per violation”, which means it could
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee That's correct.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee It could be quite significant, which is why we need to go through the regulatory process to develop what those maximums would be, through full consultation with stakeholders and the public.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee The U.S. has an overall cap rather than the per regulation cap. I'd have to confirm that, but I believe their cap is $105 million at this point in time.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee We chose the two-year period because it was in alignment with the period we have for the criminal aspect of this issue as well. The intent is that it's two years after we discover the issue, not two years after an infraction takes place, so that we would be able to do it within t
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee The intent is that we would be developing the maximum levels of the penalties within regulation and that what we would do through the regulatory process is determine, depending on the egregiousness of the violation, what level of penalty there would be. What it would include is t
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee For us, it would be the manufacturer.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee For us, just to confirm, companies are manufacturers and importers. They're not component developers.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee This is meant to show what types of headings, boxes, and types of information would be on the form, and that may change over time.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee Just to clarify the conversations we had on this issue, when the original wording was read, our understanding was that the protections did not apply to the dealers but only to the consumers. We felt it was important to clarify the original intent, which was that the dealers had t
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin
Transport committee This particular clause refers back to the process within the legislation that defines the whole order process when there is a preliminary determination that gets posted. There is information that comes in from the manufacturer as well as from the public. It gets reviewed. A fin
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Kim Benjamin